THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1956.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Designers Handle The Jersey
With Ingenuity
Woo
By GINA POPESINA
mounted on the world TOOL Jersey is one of newest of all,
the most versatile wool a stiffened base, it can be jersey and fabrics. It comes in vary used for full, flared skirts, ing weights and can be used Wool jersey is a particu. for all types of clothes from lar favourite with Italian uvening wear to tailored ready-to-wear clothea manu suite, It can be draped; it facturers this seBAON, The
moulded:
and, Arm of Spagnoli famous
can
A
Add An Italian Touch To Home Dressmaking
- ne
the clever
Loft, quite plain except for the gentle swathing over the right hip. The ideal fabric would be A wool jersey or a middle
RE
0304 who can cut can material without using a pattern and working only from ʼn sketeh? Or have you a good dressmaker weight wool crepe. The original who works on these lines? I also has a short bolero to make more suitable for daytime so, you may be interested in the it
various models shown above; wear. For really glamorous
they are frem the current collection of Giuliano of Milan.
touch add a fox fur collar.
ita
over for machine knit.. wear has launched, for the col.ection of first time, a dinner, cocktail and short evening dressrs in very fine pure wool jersey. Horizontal wool draping, to which Jersey lends itself ad- mirubly, l
important
feature of number of these models. Comparative. ly inexpensive, they are designed with the average woman in mind and give her supreme elegance at a low cost.
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In the winter collection of firm specialising in ready-to- weur teenagers' clothes, most of The dresses were in printed wool Apart from the familiar jt:I"
designs in bright, gay colour, there were other more usual riesigns to for as wool
Fuch Jerry is concerned} pol Hots, geometric patterns and its gular small checks. One w even models ven foutured Jertev printed with flowers. pados multi-coloured fans en very light background shades.
W9%) jersey also has another burtent role to piny-s IK Thestrat for rougher surfaces fabrics such as Shetland outer tweeds. For instance. a three-
cont with J yuarter
wide postillion collar
sinte-blue Shetland la enhanerd by linbur of ane
wool jersey in the same colour, but thickly striped with a sky-blue cable pattern Il es with a blouse to match worn the lining, and a skit of The Tweed.
imper
MILADY
THE
Scientific
SPAGNOLI Study Reveals
Top: Slate-blue wool jersey is used for this short dinner drem with a round decollete neckline and long sleeves. Ruched panels down either side are joined across the front al waist and bust levels by a black velvet bow.
Lower left: This short dinner dress in black wool jersey has an elongated, moulded bodice ruched in vertical panels over a plain, stender skirt. A baw adorns the left hip.
The straight line of this engktail dress in Lower right: red wool Jersey is accentuated by the draped entre panel which starts from the cross-ovor neckline and extends to knee-level.
OF 1957 WILL GLITTER
FROM HEAD TO FOOT
Paris.
Took this enserime
opulent, glittering descent gems.
while
s
one
mosales. Another
Underweights
W
'Undereat'
person
WHAT keeps the thin thin? In- variably, underweights com- plain that they cat enough anci conclude that there must be some physiological reason back of their fallure
to add needed pounds. But
in line with recent scientific findings, the fact is-under- weights undercat,
WAN
A study
recently made on this subject. Three normally healthy young men who were from 14 to IM percent underweight pricipated in the study. They were hospitalised s0 but food intake and all activity could be closely controlled.
In each phase of the study, these young men were kept in bed until 1.30 p.m. each day. Every afternoon they walked 5 miles at a steady, controlled pace. After this exercise they sat quietly reading until bedtime at 8 in the | evening,
A
men
Was
On the calorie score, cach fot the
young first placed on 2,100 fealories a day, and on this
food of { #LED]>[J**{
their body
main- weight waA tained that in, neither gained
nor
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they lost.
Next followed a period in which food intake Was nearly doubled and in- creased to 4,000 calories # day, with 150 change in activities. On this regime, all three of the men gained weight.
Metabolism tests made At four-hour intervals showed that
ab-
the
alitter Moral pirs, contrived of pearls
and glow are the the calories were burned at the keywords of the season, with same rate on the high and low Also, laboratory Braccicts, Dina whe
hair jewelled effects appearing every-calorie diets.
where on match 1912 styles.
from analysis revealed that the binaments
everything jewellery accompani: the Bracelets ciipiussy
morning until night." Orrate sorption rate of calories, fat and revival of 1912 styles in moulded sleeves, or are worn on
unchanged por novelly buttons are a highlight nitrogen was
Paris.
bare
with
on tailored streetwear, featuring centage-wise by the increase in steveless On with sheaths. Pins murk
the focal clustered seed pearls or cavlar daily Intake from. 2,100 to 4,000 beads, miniature watch faces set calories. In other words, accord- neck!Ine
or drape in "My fale lady" of fushion point of
rhinestone
frames, millinery
oring to this study, none of Jizz and is wearing rastumamnests decorate the twisted coloured enamel worked like three young men was thin be-
Florentine
of cause hair styles, Dior
poor absorption in the jewellery matched to her Foll
unlikely treatment for jewellery digestive tract. costume. with usca jewelled millinery pins to individual
The young men consumed colour and styling assorted match earrings, or trims small is a leopard muff and chechla
toques with fenther cockades with each individual fur mark-without effort all the excess to each ensemble.
ing picked out by burnt topaz food Included in mounted on jewelled clips.
the high or black Jet stones, My lady calorie diet, According to the AMUSING
report, this indicates that their head to foot, High vamped
pedrozular low intake of food patrician
not due to
to a limited capacity of HEADPHONE EFFECTS
docorated
with gem studded
their stomachs.. Algreites for evening fastened buckles,
matched to lower.
Since the Increased calorie in- to a welled brcoch, are shown ing heels solidly paved with a Balmain,
rhinestones.
Umbrella handles take resulted in an increase of
the and compacts are
Anal body weight, the report pointed medallion resort, and
Paris decrees That but that the obvious conclusion
The tra of The single strand pearl necklace to be Despite the unusual asym-rn with everything from metric cut of the dress shown a sweater to a dinner gown. lower centre, this is design h. ver. which will not date rapidly and would be
sultable tor many
on
the
Jewellery plays an integal
Dlor Introduces a
N
of 1057 glitters Illerally
court shoes
often
from
The slender, straight-cut top coat shown at the top left occasions. depending features the large cape collar fabrle which you select. For rule in the overall story of mide cent pink stones hang- even these functional accessories is thot the thin person just which is so fashionable at the day deess, 1 suggest a honey-with elaborato new effects ing on the forcheucl, mounted should capture the shimmer and doesn't cal enough Lo bring moment. The original mode! comb wool Jersey or a wool achieved in vibrant colour, on black fulle headband
Lanvin glimmer of the Christmas tree weight up to normal standards. IDA JEAN KAIN media, workmanship, and pinned at the brow.
Castillo feature amusing head spirit--China Mail Special. 'd world styling.
phone effects, with black velvet bowe suspending pearl pendants, altached to cach side of the wired hairband.
dark
brown fannal;
for the later hour, n it blue or tinek wool erepe or
J
a dark brown drap.
was made up in rough-surfaced tweed. but would look equally well in smoother woo] fabric much theecloth.
velour. drap or especially If you wait 1 fur more dressy occasions.
The
interest main
BCW
necklace There is shupe for every neckline, range Another design which will noting from twelve to twenty-inch
date is the suit shown lower graded strande with the lowest Another popular adaptation the right. In
This was designed to go strand falling Itside a low-cut from the pre-World War elegant sult shown at ton centre with the cout shown at the top decollete, ta geometrically period, is the black velvet Res in the elongatod, narrow left and was made in the sime shaped bib collars, collarets, and ribbon fastened tightly round lapels of the jacket. The original dark brown tweed. Other sult- elongated festoons suggesting the throat like a dog colins, model was made in peacock wool able fabrics would be basket carly Egyptian and Byzantine clipped at the front, with ene drop with grosgrain revers of weav
WERVER. Shetlan or Chaviot Influenod. tweed be a middle-weight face-
the same colour.
A plain wool fabric would be cloth. If you prefer a patterned | INSPIRED BY
the best choice. 103, for the fabric, a
a small check derign, D
dress shown at the top right, as faint herringbone pattern or CZARIST RUSSIA
whole effect depends on two-coloured tweed are per- seaming detail which would be missible, but avoid textiles
with
20
stresses
Important jewel or broodh,
n
The biggest colour newb comte in the romantic pastel stones and the Aurora Borealis diamond-cut crystal, or rainbow Dior Christian
treated rhinestones,
with Jost in a highly-patterned fabric, large patterns such Glen antique mountings and flogres
Iridescent with opaline shimmering settings teamed This design allows a baste model checks beztuce
process, patterns such
and dark. Con- brilliant Empire producing light and to be dressed-up cr dressed will not look well broken up by tones
trasis. "Christmas Dream" is down according to requirements, the
unusual elongated yoke, colours assorted to the costume,
of ore namo
necklace, effects on the Perfect for the purly rison quite apart from the fact that with frosted ahend is the sleeveless, high they will detract from this, the underside of the stone lending created by Franela Winter for necked sheath dress shown lower main featura,
transparency. He also introducts Dior and featuring a prismatic range intermixed with jonquli dark iridescent stone of diamends. Other effects volcarle
which he has "Butterfly Wing" necklaces Jewellery In
In Lio Jacques Fath combining a galaxy of wondrous blucs, and "frosted sain" collection is directly inspired by cabochon stores set in filagres, Czarist Russia and the Diaghilev
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
a now,
caller ori dis
balicis, There are outsized JEWELLED
It is wise to go over alt enamel A long-handled fork may be square cut rhinestones, imitation
medallion dangling
and metal surfaces of your icita used not only for lifting most and emerald and sapphics brillants, ACCESSORIES chen stove with warm auds after, other solid foods and for team ect in elaborate pendant neck- each mest. If you let grease and for doneness. Such a fork will laces, splatters accumulate around the elo serve to draw baked foods earrings, and baroque brooches liko burners and in the oven, the from back to front of oven. rango uses extra fuel or power. without benefiting you,
Unorthodox jewellery colours
smoke, topaz,
tortoise, which derive styling from copper, carmet and absinthe, Imperial decorations and appear in autumn-toned stones Ono good electric lamp in the insignin.
for wearing with tweeds in the living room, with a wide spread
daytime Antique type Russian Pierro Balmain likes costume effects appear in dark gamet When food is tried on a gas of light, can serve two persons Jewellery to masquerade as real stones used with black dia
often for reading or sewing. Arrange pieces. He copios the famous menda or Jet, range, popping greaso spatters the burners not in use, lamp and chairs so that there are carrings of Madams ... Do", Fie plater turned upside down no abadows on the pages of the Loules de Vilmorin's heroine, in- The antique trend in jetlings over the unlit burners protect book or on the handiwork.
|ellamones prudenty, matches to is found also in flagres work, them from splashes of grease,
chokortbestades, Balmain treats chains and smutedra in which and are easily cleaned.
length
noekideta perle alternate with beads, or occasionally appears on the sut in monotoned effects of graded, multi-faceted stones adus payed *To save scorched food, plunge face of orlonevestors, turo Irregular and pestle, an
Comigold or silver ion; frames. the cooking pan into cold water sweater inside out before, wash-
Inaryles dangling cloudy nad milllamé contrastar
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before tranfarring it from the ing. Then it soch fury balls col baroqu
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